Adult Non-Fiction

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What if money didn't mean restriction, and instead, choice? The ability to luxuriously travel, quit toxic jobs, donate to important organizations, retire early?Tori distills the principles of her shame- and judgment-free approach to paying off debt, figuring out your value categories to spend mindfully, saving money without monk-like deprivation, and investing in order to spend your retirement tanning in Tulum.

Finance

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The ways diet culture and body biases in our families, schools and other parts of society may impact children. By Virginia Sole-Smith
The Self-Driven Child offers a combination of cutting-edge brain science, the latest discoveries in behavioral therapy, and case studies drawn from the thousands of kids and teens Bill and Ned have helped over the years to teach you how to set your child on the real road to success.

Parenting

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Nearly every day, we find ourselves forced to edit our emotions to accommodate the emotions of others. Too many of us are asked to perform this exhausting, draining work at no extra cost, especially if we’re women or people of color. Emotional labor is essential to our society & economy, but it’s so often invisible. In this groundbreaking, journalistic deep dive, Hackman shares the stories of hundreds, tracing the history of this kind of work and exposing common manifestations of the phenomenon
by Carl J. Schramm...“The evangelist of entrepreneurship” (The Economist) reveals the true stories about how a range of entrepreneurs created their successful start-ups: hint, many of them never began with a business plan. Business schools teach that the most important prerequisite for starting a business is a business plan. Nonsense, says Carl Schramm in Burn the Business Plan, who for a decade headed the most important foundation devoted to entrepreneurship in this country.

Business

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What it's about: pediatric bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux’s life story and the relationship she's developed with her faith, her fears, and her hopes for the future in her adult life. A life well-lived: highlights from Arceneaux’s story so far include climbing Mount Ranier, mission trips to Nicaragua and Peru, fighter jet training, and becoming the youngest American to visit space (representing St. Jude’s Children's Research Hospital).
A lyrical, thought-provoking look at the meaning of paradise, which took talented author Pico Iyer to a variety of places and led him to ponder how people can live more peacefully in a divided world. By Pico Iyer
The importance of compatibility and how couples can be proactive in understanding their spiritual, financial, and emotional compatibility and break destructive communication patterns before they start. By Chelsea & Nick Hurst

Spirituality and Religion

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by Phoebe Robinson...In her brand-new collection, Phoebe shares stories that will make you laugh, but also plenty that will hit you in the heart, inspire a little bit of rage, and maybe a lot of action.
by William Henry Evans & Omar Holmon...A witty and thought-provoking blend of pop culture criticism and social commentary written by Black Nerd Problems website creators William Henry Evans and Omar Holmans.
by John Green...

Essay Collections

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In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. In addition to his five basic steps, a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels, Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight-for good.
Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health.
We all experience negative emotions from time to time. But in a world with as much frenzy & pressure as ours, it's incredibly easy for these same emotions to become destructive. Blending Eastern tradition with Western science, Goleman effortlessly helps you embrace and understand meditation as never before. With accessible and eye-opening advice based on groundbreaking neuroscience, this book helps break free from negative patterns of thought and behaviour but radically embrace your very being.

Health

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by Tyler Kepner...From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today
by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas...John Urschel, mathematician and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, tells the story of a life balanced between two passions...
The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvan... The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends—University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano—by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John Feinstein

Sports

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Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland by... We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, “What the hell is wrong with Florida?”

Humor

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by James Patterson with Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge...
by Casey Cep...In Furious Hours, Casey Cep unravels the mystery surrounding Harper Lee's first and only work of nonfiction, and the shocking true crimes at the center of it
Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that... A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.

True Crime

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by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen...Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to our country’s polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality.
by Douglas Wolk...The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale...
by Daniel Levy and Eugene Levy...Character profiles, major story moments and behind-the-scenes tales from the Emmy Award-winning series Schitt's Creek.

Pop Culture

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! British polar explorer Felicity Aston put out a call for women who'd like to go on a polar ski expedition and received hundreds of replies. She chose ten, many with little experience. The team, made up of women from Europe and the Middle East, trained for two years before setting out.
Whether you want to admire Hawaii's fiery volcanoes or explore its diverse coastlines, uncover history at Pearl Harbour or discover vibrant cities like Honolulu, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Hawaii has to offer.Surrounded by cobalt-blue waters teeming with exotic marine life, the Hawaiian islands are characterized by pristine beaches shaded by swaying palms, blossoming forests dotted with thundering waterfalls, and dramatic cliffs dropping steeply to the sea
by Helen Russell...

Travel

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Just because a brutal regime has taken over Afghanistan doesn't mean Afghan women will stand by while their rights are stripped away. Nahid Shahalimi compiles the voices of 13 powerful, insightful, and influential Afghan women who have worked as politicians, journalists, scientists, filmmakers, artists, coders, musicians, and more. As they reflect on their country's past, stories of their own upbringing and the ways they have been able to empower girls and women over the past two decades emerge
Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World by Stephan... In Couchsurfing in Iran, award-winning author Stephan Orth spends sixty-two days on the road in this mysterious Islamic republic to provide a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at life in one of the world’s most closed societies.
The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure by Sh... The Milk Lady of Bangalore immerses us in the culture, customs, myths, religion, sights, and sounds of a city in which the twenty-first century and the ancient past coexist like nowhere else in the world. It’s a true story of bridging divides, of understanding other ways of looking at the world, and of human connections and animal connections, and it’s an irresistible adventure of two strong women and the animals they love.

Cultures

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This eagerly awaited volume focuses on family socks that promise to amaze, from delicate Nighty Night Sleep Socks to sturdy Bell Island Tickle Vamps and iconic Puffin and Whale play socks for youngsters. Coordinating hats, gloves and fingerless mittens rooted in traditional design complete this exploration of contemporary Atlantic outdoor style. Detailed instructions and lavish photographs will appeal to readers and knitters of all ages and abilities.
by Jacqui Atkin...Learn how to master one of the most ancient yet simple and appealing ceramics techniques. Taught with a modern approach by a master potter, this amazing collection of pinched projects is the perfect place to start your new ceramics hobby or to explore new ways to shape clay as a more experienced crafter.
by Annie O'Brien Gonzales...Annie O'Brien Gonzales felt a passion for art from an early age. But not until 30 years later--after raising a family and working "a real job"--did she get serious about painting. Along the way, she experienced the pleasures and the pitfalls of learning to paint. In these pages, she channels it all to help others discover (or re-discover) The Joy of Acrylic Painting.

Crafts

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Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health.
By Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author chronicles the discovery of cells and describes how modern medicine uses them.
What it does: explores, in nine provocatively titled chapters (including "Do Copies of Us Exist?" and "Has Physics Ruled Out Free Will?"), what our current understanding of physics can tell us about ourselves. About the author: Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder (Lost in Math), a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, also created the YouTube channel Science Without the Gobbledygook.

Science

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An award-winning Uyghur journalist based in the United States, whose own family members disappeared into concentration camps, exposes the systematic destruction of culture and human rights by the Chinese government in the East Turkestan region. By Gulchehra Hoja
by Viola Davis. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment to the stage in NYC, and beyond; the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me. I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get to some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you.
Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands with Sam Heughan-exploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define him. In this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam sets out along Scotland's rugged 96mile West Highland Way to map out the moments that shaped his views on dreams and ambition, family, friendship, love, and life. The result is a love letter to the wild landscape that means so much to him, full of charming, funny, wise, and searching insights into the world through his eyes.

Memoir

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What it is: a richly detailed history that reveals how courtly love shaped England's Tudor period (1485-1603). What's inside: illuminating insights on how the era's five monarchs (including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I) utilized notions of courtly love, inspired by Arthurian legends, to shape their public personas and wield political influence.
In 1848, Ellen Craft, disguised as a disabled white man, and her husband, William, posing as that man's slave, achieved freedom only to have to flee again.
Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'. Here, Emma Smith shows us why.

Historical

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Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the Highly Sensitive Person, it's a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a psychotherapist, workshop leader and highly sensitive person herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and hundreds of interviews, she shows how you can better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller, richer life.
What if we viewed dyslexia as a learning and processing style rather than as a learning disorder?
An affirming, science-based advice for navigating the understandable anxieties that come with parenting and savoring its joys.

Self Help

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A revealing account of the ascent of Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China. Featuring: insights from scholars, diplomats, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) insiders; incisive reportage from author Chun Han Wong, who has covered China for the Wall Street Journal for nearly a decade.
An investigation into the cobalt mining practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the moral implications for users of many electronic devices.
by Michael Lewis...

Current Events

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Whether you have a postage stamp's worth of space or acres to spare, Produce on Your Porch equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening, right where you are.
Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding more features each year. Step-by-step photos from the author's own homestead, accompanied by her hard-earned advice and instruction, make this a one-of-a-kind guide for anyone who aspires to grow more of their own food
A thoughtful, accessible, and creative guide for the savvy home gardener on how to create a beautiful, productive and healthy garden without spending crazy amounts of cash. This budget and earth-friendly demonstrates where a gardener can save, such as on designing a garden, soil, plants, water, maintenance, and upcycling. Peppered throughout the book, the reader finds quick pro tips, top 10 lists, creative side bar suggestions, easy homemade remedies to common garden problems and more

Home and Garden

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A heartrending, intimate memoir from the iconic pin-up and former star of Baywatch.
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles--the earned wisdom that helps her continue to "become."
By Susan Goldman Rubin. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were expected to marry; as well as her fierce competition with the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli; and some of her most memorable firsts for the fashion industry, including the little black dress, the quilted purse with gold chain, and the perfume Chanel No. 5.

Famous People

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